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Nadav Shragai

Nadav Shragai is a veteran Israeli journalist.

The late Prime Minister Ariel Sharon denied that Israel was planning “Disengagement II,” this one from Judea and Samaria, but it turns out that he and former Justice Minister Tzipi Livni appointed a secret team that was charged to look into the feasibility of the idea.
Tisha B’Av is a time to look at the parallels between modern-day Israel and Second Temple-era Jerusalem, where Jews were tearing themselves apart even before the Romans arrived.
Little has changed since the first communities were founded in the area in 1967, despite the broad ‎consensus among the Israeli public that the valley is ours. ‎
Historic decisions may require careful consideration, but they also require courage and determination.
Israel now has a chance not only to extend its law to parts of Judea and Samaria, but also to get past the 53-year-long dispute that has torn it apart.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to build 1,000 housing units in eastern Jerusalem will end the P.A.’s hope of creating a contiguous urban foothold running from Bethlehem through Beit Jala and Givat Hamatos.
Fate has sent the Jewish state a set of circumstances unlikely to come its way again. The “deal of the century” really is, and Israel must seize it.
In this year of campaigns, it has often seemed as if the Jewish people have stopped acting as a collective, and that groups are showing more loyalty to themselves than to Israel as a whole.
On the Day of Atonement, we reaffirm our commitment to the rest of the Jewish people. If only we could live up to it all year round, we would be a better and more Jewish society.
An unofficial extension of the Sur Baher neighborhood in eastern Jerusalem, it is not included in the municipal territory of Jerusalem but adjacent to it.
For the Palestinians attempting to rewrite the history of Israel’s capital city, the City of David is just one more thread in the large tapestry of denial of Jewish ties to Jerusalem.
The focus of new tensions on the Temple Mount has not been chosen by chance by the Waqf council (in its new, broader, extreme composition) as the arena for provocation against Israel at the holy site.